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Canada's engineering market isn't impressive because it doesn't have the American DOD spending behind it. There are countries that are quite impressive for thei
by pineaux 5y ago
Canada's engineering market isn't impressive because it doesn't have the American DOD spending behind it. There are countries that are quite impressive for their software engineering compared to the states and population. Sweden comes to mind and the taxes are a lot more steep there than in Canada.
- TMWNN 5y ago>Canada's engineering market isn't impressive because it doesn't have the American DOD spending behind it. DoD spending helped build Silicon Valley when it was all fruit orchards, but other forces surpassed it in importance decades ago. >There are countries that are quite impressive for their software engineering compared to the states and population. Sweden comes to mind and the taxes are a lot more steep there than in Canada. If you credit defense spending with Silicon Valley today, you ought to do the same with Sweden. It, after, all, has an unusually large native defense industry. Saab jet fighters would not exist today if Stockholm hadn't decided decades ago that having an indigenous aircraft industry would be of value for geopolitical (as a neutral country) and economic reasons.